kids don t even know. they think it is an herbal supplement and they might not know it is fentanyl. police just recovered 100 bags of fentanyl from a then-year-old s bed over he a 13-year-old s bedroom. explain to the audience. and please, listen and tell your young people what this is. explain what fentanyl is and why it is so dangerous. right. so fentanyl is a synthetic opioid. it is made in a lab. it is very cheap and very deadly. you only need a tiny, tiny amount to kill you. he sow you can buy just strayed up fentanyl but that s not really how people are dying. the bulk of the deaths are because someone buys what they think is a percocet. what they think is meth. someone buys what they think is cocaine and it is laced with fentanyl. they have no idea that they re taking fentanyl and they die because of the fentanyl that is in those drugs.
migrants are at home between 8:00 at night and 8:00 in the morning. gillian: opioid trafficking we are learning poses a direct threat to u.s. national security, also continuing to cause record numbers of deaths among teens and young adults, according to a new government report that is pointing a finger directly across the southern border at mexico. alexis mcadams has details. as we know, fentanyl is flooding the u.s. drug market, every day we hear about it. the synthetic opioid is 60 times more powerful than heroin and showing up without a warning in everything from pills to pot. partnership to end addiction tells us more teenagers are getting their hands on fentanyl these days. teens who may not be that savvy about substance use or may think their friends took a pill, their friend was fine, so they get a pill from the same supplier, there is no quality control. this problem becoming a big issue here in the united states.